Sorry, I know, that's mean....
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Voyage Homecoming books Expensive?
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Sorry, I know, that's mean....
Back to topic: That's not than uncommon, check for example for Rihannsu: The empty Chair, prices between 20 and 280 $......
This is going to sound ridiculous... but, what if you downloaded the pdf for like 6 bucks from the site- and then printed it? Is that allowed for your own personal use? It'd be about 26$ (262 pages) if you printed the whole thing, if it was 10 cents a page like it would be here, maybe less... so you'd have it for 31$ Actually, as a pdf, it's probably a lot less in 8.5x11.
And then if someone read it in the bath... you'd still have it if you dropped it!
I read in the bath, but it's probably a bad habit...
Star Trek ebooks cannot be printed legally. By which I mean, there's digital rights management software that will prevent you from printing them. (If, hypothetically, a method existed to circumvent the DRM, that would be illegal and you'd have to be pretty dumb to talk about it here.)
^ Okay... I thought there'd be a clause in the TOS that people could maybe print for personal use... But I also thought some of them were just normal pdfs or some kind of text files. But that wouldn't make sense, would it?
Then again, I also thought the adobe one could be read just from the regular Adobe reader, but I'm thinking it's a separate thing for all the different types.
Back to the drawing board...
Then again, I also thought the adobe one could be read just from the regular Adobe reader, but I'm thinking it's a separate thing for all the different types.
Back to the drawing board...
i read in the bath too. Damn thats a lot of money for those books..cant that be an error or something?
Actually, if you download the eBook in a format that the reader software supports read aloud then you can legally strip the DRM. That means that PDF and MS Reader are legally strippable.
To read DRM protected PDF, you'll need to use Adobe Digital Editions.
*another bathtub reader*
If you never get your hands on Homecoming you'll still be okay if you've read Full Circle. Homecoming was done well enough but not nearly as satisfying as FC. I'm not sure if it was the length; or the ends that got tucked; in or the new adventure.
After reading both FC did a lot more to answer my questions than Homecoming in spite of the span between the release - or maybe because of the span between the release of the two. maybe K Beyer had a lot more time to think about it than C Golden.
It's not that rare: "Homecoming" sold like gangbusters. It went into reprint many times, so there are a lot of copies in people's collections. Few people are releasing their old copies at the moment, and the recent release of "Full Circle" has probably caused a renewed spike in interest in the previous four books.
I have seen "Homecoming" and "The Farther Shore" brand new on numerous bookshop shelves in recent months, so it's still out there. But it seems to be officially out-of-print at Pocket, so shops can't order in new copies. There are, of course, less bricks 'n' mortar second hand bookshops around these days - and even those that are are often researching prices from the online second hand markets. But a little patience and savvy searching should help. (And you could also try PMing some people over on the VOY pages of this bbs. Quite a few announced they were done with Pocket after what happened to Janeway a few years ago. They may have copies to throw your way.
)I've never understood the appeal of reading in the bath. The water goes cold before I can get very far into a book.
Honestly, don't get too excited and please don't waste your money, he's given about a paragraph promotion-wise and its in the second book 'Farther Shore' which is a lot cheaper anyway (though the rest of it won't make any sense without reading Homecoming, but tbh it didn't make any sense anyway.....)
Any Homecoming fans out there? Anyone got anything good to say about it at all?? I'm a die hard Voyager fan and Janeway fan and I hated it!
I sold mine and made money, thats the only good thing about it from my POV
apart fromas a semi J/Cer I was pleased Seven and Chakotay split up.
Though from what people have said above if I'd waited I could've made more money, Grrrrrr!!!
I thought it was absolutely dreadful. Pity the poor trees that died for that rubbish.
I still have my copy - didn't ditch it along with the rest of my Trek books a year or two back - but only because I got it at a convention and Kate Mulgrew signed it for me.
That's not enough to make me want to keep it at the moment, but seeing how much copies are going for now makes me want to. Just in case prices go up in future.
The main problem (for me) in that book was how absurd the 'villain' was for those two books. Not going to spoil anything, but Voyager's return could have been handled a lot better.
Of course Kirsten Beyer cleans up much of the mess left by those two books and the Spirit Walk duology that follows them in Full Circle.
Of course Kirsten Beyer cleans up much of the mess left by those two books and the Spirit Walk duology that follows them in Full Circle.
I actually kinda liked the first four relaunch books. IMO, they were better than Death in Winter and Resistance.
Thanks for all your replys. I guess I won't be reading it anytime soon. Oh well. I quess I will look forward to the new one.
More than DS9 PF? Really? Did you enjoy the DS9 series? If you liked the VOYPF books that much... I may have to look into them a bit more carefully...
It was ok. Not the worst Trek book I've read and not the best. A lot of things that happened seemed rushed.
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